PhD Building scalable multi-modal world models

Hi, I'm — Jacob Junyi Chen.

A 3rd-year PhD student at SJTU, currently researching world models, video generation and multi-modal learning. I build foundational systems that perceive, understand and generate our physical world.

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Jacob
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01 Publications

Selected publications.

* denotes equal contribution  ·  † denotes corresponding author

Image / Video Generation
VINO: A Unified Visual Generator with Interleaved OmniModal Context
Junyi Chen, Tong He, Zhoujie Fu, Pengfei Wan, Kun Gai, Weicai Ye†
Project Paper Code Demo
CVPR 2026
iMontage: Unified, Versatile, Highly Dynamic Many-to-many Image Generation
Zhoujie Fu, Xianfang Zeng, Jinghong Lan, Xinyao Liao, Cheng Chen, Junyi Chen, Jiacheng Wei, Wei Cheng, Shiyu Liu, Yunuo Chen, Gang Yu†, Guosheng Lin†
Project Paper Code
World Models, 3D / 4D Generation
DeepVerse: 4D Autoregressive Video Generation as a World Model
Junyi Chen, Haoyi Zhu, Xianglong He, Yifan Wang*, Jianjun Zhou*, Wenzheng Chang*, Yang Zhou*, Zizun Li*, Zhoujie Fu, Jiangmiao Pang, Tong He†
Project Paper Code
ICCV 2025
Aether: Geometric-Aware Unified World Modeling
Aether Team (Haoyi Zhu*, Yifan Wang*, Jianjun Zhou*, Wenzheng Chang*, Yang Zhou*, Zizun Li*, Junyi Chen*, Chunhua Shen, Jiangmiao Pang, Tong He†)
Project Paper Code
02 Projects

Selected projects.

Infinite-Forcing: Towards Infinite-Long Video Generation
2025.9
Code
03 Experience

Education & experience.

Hunyuan, Tencent

Research Intern · World Model

Supervisor: Tengfei Wang

2025.12 — present
Kling Team, Kuaishou Technology

Research Intern · Unified Multi-Modal Video Generation

Supervisor: Weicai Ye

2025.8 — 2025.12
Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Research Intern · 3D/4D Generation, World Models

Supervisor: Tong He & Wanli Ouyang

2023.1 — 2025.8
Shanghai Jiao Tong University

PhD in Computer Science and Technology · GPA 3.80 / 4

Advisor: Tong He & Wanli Ouyang

2023.9 — 2028.6
Huazhong University of Science and Technology

BS in Electronic Information Engineering · GPA 3.97 / 4

Rank 4% (8 / 180)

2019.9 — 2023.6
04 Awards

Honors & awards.

05 Misc

Beyond research.

Academic Service

  • ReviewerTPAMI · NeurIPS · AAAI · ICLR · CVPR · ICML · ECCV · ICCV
  • Gold ReviewerICML 2026

Soccer Career — Hala Madrid

  • SJTU SEIEE School FC (B Team)2023–2024
  • HUST EIC School FC2019–2023
  • Chongqing Bashu Middle School FC2017–2018
  • Chongqing Jiangbei District U15 (4th, Municipal Games)2012
  • Chongqing Jiangbei Xincun Tongchuang Intl. Primary School FC2008–2013
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